The world we inhabit is becoming increasingly violent. In the Americas, in Asia, in Europe and in Africa, violent acts are common. They have become everyday actions that seem unstoppable. But these events are not spontaneous. At the base of these, there are the States that live from the commercialization of arms; there are also the transnational companies of organized crime and drug trafficking. In several of the named continents, the root of violence lies more in structural inequity. Haiti and the Dominican Republic, although with different intensity and modalities, are overwhelmed by acts of violence. Both countries suffer from far-reaching structural problems. If equity becomes a chimera for the majority of people, violence springs up and spreads. In our country, violence has deep roots, which is why it is a difficult evil to channel, but it is possible to do so. To make progress in reducing violence, political will is needed. This implies decisions that turn economic, political and socio-educational inequality three hundred and sixty degrees. If the majority of citizens had decent living conditions, violence would be reduced to a minimum. The opposite happens; therefore, we have to suffer the impact of a high level of violence. To the level, we must add the diversification of violence.
Social, family and school violence have the same roots, they intercommunicate. This reality tells us that what happens in each of the aforementioned areas is not fortuitous. It responds to historically generated and sustained situations. The country feels overwhelmed when observing the progressive increase in deaths due to gender violence. He feels powerless, seeing how violent actions and relationships expand within the school. In the same way, it shudders when facing a violence that becomes a predatory culture of human life. To produce substantive changes, it is necessary to affect the equity deficit that characterizes Dominican society. Many plans and programs can be put into action that are palliative measures, that do not change anything. It is advisable to focus on projects that thoroughly reorganize society. This reorganization must imply the implementation of policies with far-reaching effects and with incidence of a structural nature. It is not justifiable that a country considered the first in the region in the macroeconomic plane, exhibits such an unequal human, educational and social development. As long as this situation persists, we will have wholesale and retail violence. A socioeconomic and political system based on inequality is violent with capital letters. It plays progressively. Suitable spaces for it, the family and the school.
The acts of violence and abuse that have occurred in the school in recent months challenge society and the education sector. The school receives the impact of what happens in the social organization. It is necessary that the Ministry of Education and the organizations that work and contribute to the improvement of the Dominican educational system look for alternatives that at least mitigate the problem. It is urgent to enter the heart of the Dominican school to restore the mystique and life that the country requires. Let’s do everything possible to extract all the good that we can find in it and let’s reinvigorate a transformative pedagogy. Above all, let us strengthen teachers who have a lucid and decisive vocation. Let us provide strategies to convert toxic environments into spaces marked by joy and the permanent desire to learn. Let’s flood the school with new ways of teaching and building knowledge. Let’s explore the spirituality of the educational community, to enhance its ability to live, with educational depth, every minute, every second. Let’s get closer to the school, to help it, to qualify it. It is time to contribute. There is no time or space to regret. Let’s go for a living school